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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. The area on either side of the centerline - or mean - of data plotted on a control chart that meets the customer's requirements for a product or service.






2. Application of knowledge - skills - tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements






3. Change to project scope. almost always requires an adjustment to the project cost or schedule






4. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






5. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






6. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand






7. Deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






8. Defined systematic procedure employed by a human resource to perform an activity to produce a product or result or deliver a service that may employ one or more tools






9. Slack - Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






10. Logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity depends upon the initiation of the work of the predecessor schedule activity






11. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed






12. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






13. A histogram - ordered by frequency of occurrence - that shows how many results were generated by each identified cause






14. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs






15. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements






16. A request - demand or assertion of rights by a seller against a buyer or vice versa for consideration - compensation - or payment under the terms of a legally binding contract (such as for a disputed change)






17. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






18. Defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project






19. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project






20. The process of defining and documenting stakeholder needs to meet project objectives






21. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities






22. A component of work performed during the course of a project






23. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






24. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






25. The acquirer of products - services or results for an organization






26. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






27. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






28. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






29. The calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for uncompleted portions of all schedule activities. determined by working backward through the schedule network logic from the projects end date






30. Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives






31. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






32. Defined function to be performed by a project team member






33. Process which generates hundreds or thousands of probable performance outcomes based on probability distributions for cost and schedule on individual tasks. the outcomes are used to generate a probability distribution for a project as a whole.






34. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






35. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.






36. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






37. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






38. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






39. Developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities






40. Fixed price contract where the buyer pays the seller a set amount regardless of the sellers costs






41. Planning technique used to provide products - services and results that truly reflect customer requirements by translating those customer requirements into the appropriate technical requirements for each phase of project product development






42. Authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






43. Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - distribution - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information






44. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






45. Document used to record and describe or denote selected items identified during execution of a process or activity






46. Technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates






47. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work






48. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






49. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






50. Risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response